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Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and i suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be the beatles or aphex twin as it is to be verdi or ravel.
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Composers Are Influenced By All The Important

Jonny Greenwood
Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and i suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be the beatles or aphex twin as it is to be verdi or ravel.
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Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and i suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be the beatles or aphex twin as it is to be verdi or ravel. they'd be strange teenagers if they didn't. but cross-pollinating happens too - aphex twin did more interesting things with electronic music than most trained composers, who seemed to approach samplers with undue caution and reverence in those early days.
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It just annoyed me that people got so into the beatles. "beatles, beatles, beatles." it's not that i don't like talking about them. i've never stopped talking about them. it's "beatles this, beatles that, beatles, beatles, beatles, beatles." then in the end, it's like "oh, sod off with the beatles," you know?
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A whole new world of italian music was springing up, and [giuseppe] verdi was seen as old. boito got verdi all excited about the possibility of doing another opera, another kind of opera. in fact, verdi composed his two best operas, otello and falstaff, in his eighties.
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So to compare the beatles, obviously the beatles are the beatles, but in hip-hop terms, tribe is the beatles. grandmaster flash and the furious five are the beatles. big daddy kane is jimi hendrix. it means that much to people that grew up with it.
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I've got a collection of songs that i've had, i keep adding to and they're all great american composers. i wanted to showcase american composers and i've done that on a lot of my records and played things by american composers that i really respect.
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I am not the beatles. i'm me. paul isn't the beatles...the beatles are the beatles. separately, they are separate.
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